Actually, I'm slightly afraid of the slimy canned variety, but the electronic version holds no concern for me at all. Of course, I'm not in charge of a multi-million dollar IT budget that's in danger of blowing out due to a bandwidth-hogging spam attack. But speaking as an individual, spam is not a worry.
Sure, I receive stacks of unsolicited emails to both my office and private email accounts, but the majority of these can simply be erased and forgotten with a quick stroke of the delete key. Like many users, I've found the best way to avoid being inundated with spam is to keep to myself--I don't divulge my email details unnecessarily and when I have to, I only provide my hotmail address which can easily be shut down.
Despite these efforts, being on a spam hit list is almost inevitable these days, so I've found the key is to just go with the flow. For many, installing spam filters may be the solution, but to me it seems like too much bother for a relatively minor problem. Afterall, the world is choc-a-block full of unsolicited advertising in places like billboards and on the sides of buses, but nobody's suggesting we all wear some sort of blinkered goggles in order to avoid these types of visual pollution.
Spam may be an aggravating nuisance, but in the end, it's easier to just look the other way.
SPAM is NOT OK. No matter how you dress it up it is an overhead which the end user finishes up paying for in download costs or ISP cost/charge increases to the end user.
Enough is enough